http://www.murakami.ch/main_5.html: Murakami's latest novel follows the lives of two sisters, Mari (quiet and bookish) and Eri (beautiful and troubled) through one night in Tokyo - between the hours of midnight and six, when the Tokyo trains have stopped running. Mari encounters a jazz musician, a Chinese sex-worker, and the managers of a love hotel. All the while, her sister is at home in a strange sleep being watched by a sinister man. As with most of Murakami's novels, this one focuses on the idea of alienation - and how different people experience it in different forms. I enjoyed select chapters of this book and threads of the story, but as a whole, I didn't feel as if it held together - it might have read better as a collection of short stories that happened to have characters in common.
Monday, July 23, 2007
After Dark - Haruki Murakami
http://www.murakami.ch/main_5.html: Murakami's latest novel follows the lives of two sisters, Mari (quiet and bookish) and Eri (beautiful and troubled) through one night in Tokyo - between the hours of midnight and six, when the Tokyo trains have stopped running. Mari encounters a jazz musician, a Chinese sex-worker, and the managers of a love hotel. All the while, her sister is at home in a strange sleep being watched by a sinister man. As with most of Murakami's novels, this one focuses on the idea of alienation - and how different people experience it in different forms. I enjoyed select chapters of this book and threads of the story, but as a whole, I didn't feel as if it held together - it might have read better as a collection of short stories that happened to have characters in common.
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